PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ada Lovelace, Turing Test

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: guarini

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Lecture 11: behavioural test for what thinking is. In the process makes us (humans) the standard. Imitation game: turing wants to replace the question, can machines think? with another question. Evaluation of the turing test: if a machine can think, then it can pass the turing test. Turing think it is necessary: if a machine can pass the turing test, then it can think. Http://www. alicebot. org: how extensive is the literature on whether machines can think? http:// debategraph. org/stream. aspx?nid=75&vt=bubble&dc=focus. Objections and replies: turing anticipates and replies to a variety of objections against the idea that a machine can think. The informality of human behaviour: computers are formal and don"t make and mistakes, humans are informal and make mistakes, he says of course computers can make mistakes, they can guess, and make mistakes like we do. The lady lovelace objection, which turing interprets as.